Interview: Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte – The State Against Mandela And The Others | 2018 Cannes Film Festival

French-based docu filmmaker Gilles Porte (When the Sea Rises) teams with journalist Nicolas Champeaux to examine the landmark Rivonia Trial of 1963-64 in The State Against Mandela and the Others. An absorbing, poignant immersion think piece that posits viewers in an the court system, Porte & Champeaux detail the lives of the nine men tried alongside Nelson Mandela for their apparently illegal activities against the apartheid state via an artful fusion of archive audio and atmospheric interpretive animation. I had the chance to sit with the pair while at the Cannes Film Festival (Special Screenings section) to find out more about their collaboration, inspiration, reflections on trial itself, and their working strategy.